RFC7 Archives-2012

The festival, which has a growing international echo, has become the ambassador of Malagasy cinema. Motivated by the belief that a quality cinema can exist in Madagascar, RFCs pursue a twofold fundamental objective: to discover the creative extent of the short film and to support Malagasy production by offering it a platform of International recognition. Co-organized by the Association of Film encounters Court, the French Institute of Madagascar and Rozifilms, for 7 years already, we are a “baby festival” but endowed with an unchallenged motivation! Our visual this year is the reflection: the RFC logo is anchored in the ground. But the most important thing is that the “RFC generation” grows, it progresses, it asserts itself. This new generation of Malagasy filmmakers has found a springboard and showcase for their talents at RFC. If this event has taken on the scale that it currently has they are the ones to be congratulated! The intuition that guided the creation of this festival proved to be fair: talent is there, we had no doubt, but above all we are able to realize this potential and tell our own stories!

Statistics of the festival

-10 103 festival-goers
-400 films projected from around the world
-21 international guests
-2 focus on two big names in African cinema
-11 Workshops
-150 participants in the Ti’Kino Gasy in Tana and in the 4 provincial cities (Antsirabe, Toliara, Mahajanga and Toamasina)
-1 Ciné-concert,
-1 Round Table, 1 photo exhibition, 1 video installation, 1 retrospective
-52 films received, 23 films selected to the official competition, 5 awarded
-11 places invested around the capital
-15 Alliances Françaises screened the films in competition during the festival
-1.2 million viewers followed the broadcast of the festival’s closing ceremony on the RTA channel

And RFCs are especially 9 days of festivities, meetings and exchanges. In April, Tana became the capital of cinema in the Indian Ocean.